# Indexing annotation as they are in {@this.Example} and searching by them
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-annotation-as-they-are-in-this-example-and-searching-by-them/103628
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 11, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-annotation-as-they-are-in-this-example-and-searching-by-them/103628 "2017-10-11T22:46:13Z")
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### Author:  [@perrohunter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/perrohunter)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-annotation-as-they-are-in-this-example-and-searching-by-them/103628/1 "2017-10-11T22:46:13Z")
Hello, I'm trying to figure out a way to index a special type of annotations that I developed so I then I can look by them later at query time, for example I may have a couple of documents with text
"this is a cool {@this.Example}"
"I think this is super cool"
I want to search for "I want some cool {@this.Example}" and match only the first document, however right now I'm matching both since there's an overlap of terms, I was trying to subquery my way around this, but seems like my annotations get indexed in a different way that I cannot match
```auto
{
'query': {
"bool":{
"must":{
"match": {
"doc_field":"{@this.Example}"
}
},
"should":{
"doc_field":{
"query":"I want something cool",
"fuzziness":"1"
}
}
}
}
}
```
I'm using the following `Analyzer` but without much results
```auto
"annotated_analyzer": {
"type": "custom",
"filter": [
"lowercase",
"english_stop",
"porter_stem"
],
"tokenizer": "whitespace",
}
```
oddly enough when creating the mapping for a field the `search_analyzer` is ignored, I'm not even sure if this analyzer is being used at `search time`
if I run `_analyze` on the field I do get what I want
```auto
GET my_index/_analyze
{
"field": "doc_field",
"text": "I want some cool {@this.Example}"
}
```
yields
```auto
{
"tokens": [
{
"token": "i",
"start_offset": 0,
"end_offset": 1,
"type": "word",
"position": 0
},
{
"token": "want",
"start_offset": 2,
"end_offset": 6,
"type": "word",
"position": 1
},
{
"token": "some",
"start_offset": 7,
"end_offset": 11,
"type": "word",
"position": 2
},
{
"token": "cool",
"start_offset": 12,
"end_offset": 16,
"type": "word",
"position": 3
},
{
"token": "{@this.example}",
"start_offset": 17,
"end_offset": 32,
"type": "word",
"position": 4
}
]
}
```
and `_validate/query` says everything is fine
```auto
{
"valid": true,
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"failed": 0
}
}
```
Any ideas on how I can achieve this behavior? I'm sure I must use an analyzer for this task to make sure elastic indexes the annotation as is.
Even if I query only for `{@this.Example}` I get no results, even if the analyzer is doing what I expect it to do, the search query is not hitting this `token` 😕
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-annotation-as-they-are-in-this-example-and-searching-by-them/103628/2 "2017-11-08T22:46:58Z")
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